The Basilisk — Paul Kingsnorth
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Maladies of the Internet
In one study it was found that children who used screens for more than two hours a day achieved lower scores on thinking and language tests. And they can't even escape at night, did you know that people go to bed with their phones under their pillows, with radioactive waves pounding through their skulls all night long? But all the blue light pouring from the screens all day disrupts their circadian rhythm so they're not sleeping anyway. What could cause this behaviour to grip an entire population in under two decades? To spread like a virus, to grip and change people in their society so utterly?What could enslave so many people against their own will? Why are their neural connections all to their world
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